Development and
Cooperation

Digital monthly 10/2022

Pandemic impacts

Street vendors in Zambia: The government wants to escape over-indebtedness with IMF and G20 support.
Governance

Debt situation is escalating in many developing countries

Multilateral action is needed to get a grip on debt problems in low-income countries

Selling essential goods in Sylhet, Bangladesh in early 2020.
Our view

Pandemic lessons

Climate mitigation has positive health impacts internationally

Sustainable transport boosts the economy: metro contstruction site in Nagpur, India, in 2019..
Green transformation

Crisis as an opportunity

Crises like the Covid-19 pandemic offer opportunities for eco-friendly stimulus programmes

More Articles

Malawians waiting to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at Ndirande Health Centre in Blantyre, in 2021.
Personal experiences

Covid-19 impacts worldwide

D+C/E+Z contributors from very different countries share their personal experiences on the Corona pandemic

Transport options matter in a pandemic: traffic in Lomé, Togo’s capital, in December 2020.
Togo

Solidarity helps to escape pandemic

How the Covid-19 pandemic contributed to more social protection in Togo

Fight Covid-19 is a trivia game from Leti Arts.
IT industry

Fighting Coronavirus with a computer game

Ghanaian computer game developer Eyram Tawia on Covid-19 impacts on his business

“We would have achieved more in shorter time if we had been allowed to manufacture a vaccine in Bangladesh”: Health worker preparing a shot.
Sustainable development

Bengali doctor says pandemic proved validity of SDG agenda

Covid-19 caused hardship in Bangladesh, but proved less devastating than initially feared

No interaction possible: third-grader taking notes while watching Tele-School TV at home in Islamabad in 2021.
Poverty

School closures in pandemic showed multidimensional poverty

UNICEF reckons that one third of the world’s schoolchildren did not get formal lessons because of Covid-19

The OMCT report was published in February 2022.
Rule of law

Covid-19 and human rights

Covid-19 measures endanger the human rights of prisoners, says a report from the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)

Group of women participating in a skills building session.
Women’s rights

Partnering with women’s groups can curb gender violence

Local women’s rights groups are often overlooked when global aid organisations plan responses to humanitarian crises. This should change